Homophilic interaction and deformation of E-cadherin and cadherin 7 probed by single molecule force spectroscopy
Keywords: Force spectroscopy; Cell adhesion; Atomic force microscopy; Magnetic tweezersEC, extracellular cadherin; EC1 to EC5 domains, the first to the fifth extracellular cadherin domains; AFM, Atomic Force Microscopy; SMD, Steered Molecular Dynamics; TIRF, Total